Calendar



J. CUSSONS.

(Model.)

CALENDAR.

Noi 292,106. Patented Jan. 15, 1884.

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CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,106, dated January15, 1884.

Application filed July 7, 1883. (Model.)

To aZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN OUssONs, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Glen Allen, in the county of Henrico and State ofVirginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Calendars, ofwhich the followling is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements on calendars of the class in whicha patent (No. 277,411) was granted to me May 8, 1883; and the noveltyconsists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be morefully hereinai'ter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In that class of calendars in which a revolving disk has combinations offigures which are disclosed by an aperture in an ornamental face-plate,in order to arrange the figures corresponding` to the days 0f the monthsay from 1 to 31-the calendar would necessarily have rabe large,unwieldy, and cumbersome, or the gures would be so small as not beconveniently discernible from even a short distance.

The object of this invention is to produce a calendar in which figuresapproximating` four times the size of those ordinarily used may beemployed without increasing the size of' the calendar, so that saidfigures will be apparent from a distance and form a striking contrastwith the faceplate. To this end I arrange the said figures in doublecircular concentric rows, the inner row comprising the figures, say,from 1 to 13, inclusive, and the outer row from 14 to 31, the figures 13and 14 being in the same radial line. The recess or aperture in theface-plate is of sufficient size to embrace both rows, and in it works aslide, which may,

by being forced into the outer end of the rei cess, disclose all thefigures of theinner row until the 13 has been used, and then, by beingforced into the inner end of said recess, disclose the 14 iirst andafterward all the remaining iigures of the outer row in the successiondesired.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a front view of the complete device broken away toshow the arrangement ofthe figures on the dial, and Fig. 2 a centralvertical section.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the ornamental face-plate,having disclosing-aperture c and strap or leg B. These parts are of theconstruction fully explained in the patents hereinbefore mentioned,except that the aperture is approximately double the size and providesguides for a slide, C, which occupies about one-half the area oi' theaperture, and which may be forced into eitherend of the aperture atwill. The dial-plate D is pivoted centrally to the face-plate A, and hasits characters d arranged in two concentric circular rows, d, the innerone of which occupies a space corresponding to the inner half of' theaperture a and the outer row the outer portion. Supposin g figures to beusedsay from 1 to 3l-a convenient division is made between 13 and 14,the figures from 1 to 13 being arranged in the inner row, and those from14 to 31 in the outer row, the combinations 13 and 14 being in a lineradial from the pivot. By this construction I can reduce the size of thecalendar without reducing the size of the charf acters, and thus greatlyincrease the practical usefulness of the device.

Heretofore a calendar has been composed of 7 a card containing columnsof figures to desig- 'nate the days of' the month, over the face ofvwhich card is arranged a second card having seven apertures runningtoward its center to exhibit the columns of iigures, a slidehaving anaperture being adapted to move vertically to point out the monthly datesor days of the month, as in Patent No. 50,430; but such does notconstitute my invention, and is not claimed by me.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- Y i In combinationwith the face-plate A, hav ing aperture c and the dial D, having con.-centric circular rows d of characters d, the slide C, moving in guidesin the aperture a, and adapted to disclose either row of characters atwill, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the' presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOHN CUSSONS.

Witnesses:

N. W. Bown, G. R. TABB.

